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The Rembrandt Century: How Art Became Big Business

4 / 5

The Rembrandt Century: How Art Became Big Business

2021

0 hr 53 min.

In the 17th century, the Netherlands experienced an unprecedented artistic explosion: painters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals were so prolific that they were able to make a living from their talent alone; so much so that, within a prosperous society, thanks to wealth from overseas colonies and financial speculation, collecting works of art became a status symbol.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

Actors: Birgitta Assheuer

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Special Action 1005

4 / 5

Special Action 1005

2022

0 hr 53 min.

No one really knows the exact details of Special Action 1005. How many people were killed by the Nazis in the rear of the Eastern Front between 1942 and 1944? There were at least tens of thousands. This is the story of how the criminals covered up the traces of their clumsy and savage crimes.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

Actors: Hans Henrik Wöhler

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The Phoney War

dir. Cédric Gruat

4 / 5

The Phoney War

2019

1 hr 32 min.

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.

Genre: Historyczny, Dokumentalny, Wojenny

Actors: Éric Caravaca, Bertrand Chamerois, Jean-Marie Fonbonne, Laurent Lederer, Anna-Flory Lamour, Céline Payen, Fernand Bignon, Jacqueline Bignon, Maurice Gamelin, Édouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Walther Lenger, Günther Prien, Walther von Brauchitsch, Fernandel, Albert Lebrun, King George VI of the United Kingdom, Neville Chamberlain, William Shepherd Morrison, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Benito Mussolini, Hermann Göring, Paul Valéry, Jean Giraudoux

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White Bird

dir. Marc Forster

4 / 5

White Bird

2024

2 hr 1 min.

Julian Albans, the bully who left Beecher Prep, is visited by his Grandmère from Paris and is transformed by her remarkable story of compassion and courage. As a girl in Nazi-occupied France, the young Grandmère goes into hiding with the help of a schoolmate, a young man who risks everything to give her the chance to survive. Together, they find beauty and love in the secret world of their own creation.

Genre: Dramat, Historyczny, Romans, Familijny, Wojenny

Actors: Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt, Bryce Gheisar, Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren, Jo Stone-Fewings, Patsy Ferran, Stuart McQuarrie, Olivia Ross, Ishai Golan, John Bubniak, Jim High, Philip Lenkowsky, James Beaumont, Yelisey Kazakevich, Adam Bakule, Laura Hudečková

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The Imitation Game

dir. Morten Tyldum

4 / 5

The Imitation Game

2014

1 hr 53 min.

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

Genre: Historyczny, Dramat, Thriller, Wojenny

Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech, Matthew Beard, Charles Dance, Mark Strong, James Northcote, Tom Goodman-Hill, Steven Waddington, Ilan Goodman, Jack Tarlton, Alex Lawther, Jack Bannon, Tuppence Middleton, Dominik Charman, James G. Nunn, Charlie Manton, David Charkham, Victoria Wicks, Andrew Havill, Laurence Kennedy, Tim van Eyken, Viv Weatherall, Miranda Bell, Tim Steed, Bartosz Wandrykow, Lese Asquith-Coe, Hayley Joanne Bacon, Ingrid Benussi, Nicholas Blatt, Jack Brash, Ancuta Breaban, Alex Corbet Burcher, Grace Calder, Richard Campbell, Daniel Chapple, Lisa Colquhoun, Alexander Cooper, Leigh Dent, Esther Eden, Sam Exley, Ben Farrow, Mike Firth, Hannah Flynn, James Gard, Guna Gultniece, Benjamin Hardie, Oscar Hatton, Luke Hope, Vera Horton, Vincent Idearson, Denis Koroshko, Debra Leigh-Taylor, Stuart Matthews, Amber-Rose May, Samantha Moran, Adam Nowell, Joseph Oliveira, Harry Leonard Parkinson, John Redmann, David G. Robinson, Alice Tapfield, Mark Underwood, Nicola-Jayne Wells, Josh Wichard, Denis Khoroshko

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Teatro Amazonas: The Art of Sound and Nature

dir. Friedemann Hottenbacher

4 / 5

Teatro Amazonas: The Art of Sound and Nature

2022

0 hr 53 min.

The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, whose construction, between 1884 and 1896, depended on the labor exploitation of the local indigenous populations, provides an insight into the cultural, social and political situation in Brazil.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

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Devil's Rope

4 / 5

Devil's Rope

2014

1 hr 29 min.

The history of barbed wire, whose use dates back to the first settlers of the Wild West, always driven by their reckless and ruthless spirit of conquest and selfish ambition to leave their mark on wild lands; of its relationship with politics and mercantilism; of the perversion of the millenary relationship between men and animals; of the evolution of surveillance techniques. Fences and borders: the tragic tale of the enclosure of the world.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

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The Great Escape

dir. John Sturges

4 / 5

The Great Escape

1963

2 hr 52 min.

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

Genre: Przygodowy, Dramat, Historyczny, Thriller, Wojenny

Actors: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton, Angus Lennie, Nigel Stock, Robert Graf, Jud Taylor, Hans Reiser, Harry Riebauer, William Russell, Robert Freitag, Ulrich Beiger, George Mikell, Lawrence Montaigne, Robert Desmond, Til Kiwe, Heinz Weiss, Tom Adams, Karl-Otto Alberty, Arthur Atkinson

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We Who Remain

dir. Trevor Snapp

4 / 5

We Who Remain

2017

0 hr 50 min.

Sudan, Southern Kordofan, the Nuba Mountains in Africa. Scenes from the forgotten war that the fighters of the Nuba people have held since 2011 against the government of President Omar al-Bashir and the Sudanese army, which crudely show the hard daily life of Hannan, a brave woman fighting for the survival of her family; Jordania, a promising student; Mosquito, a reckless journalist; and Al-Bagir, a rebel leader.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, Wojenny

Actors: Hannan Osman Kajo, Al-Bagir Ibrahim Hamdan, Musa 'Mosquito' John, Jordania Jamal Abdel-Raheem

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Stronger Than a Bullet

dir. Maryam Ebrahimi

4 / 5

Stronger Than a Bullet

2017

1 hr 15 min.

Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and proclaims the Islamic Republic on April 1st, 1979. In the same year, Saddam Hussein seizes power in Iraq and, after several border skirmishes, attacks Iran on September 22nd, 1980, initiating a cruel war that will last eight years. Since its outbreak, correspondent Saeid Sadeghi documented it from its beginning to its bitter end.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

Actors: Saeid Sadeghi, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein

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Flamin' Hot

dir. Eva Longoria

4 / 5

Flamin' Hot

2023

1 hr 39 min.

The inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin’ Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.

Genre: Komedia, Dramat, Historyczny

Actors: Jesse Garcia, Annie Gonzalez, Dennis Haysbert, Matt Walsh, Tony Shalhoub, Bobby Soto, Pepe Serna, Emilio Rivera, Vanessa Martinez, Jimmy Gonzales, Carlos S. Sanchez, Hunter Jones, Carlos Solórzano, Jayde Martinez, Fabian Alomar, Scar, Howard Ferguson Jr., Peter Diseth, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Zach Rose, J.D. Garfield, Jacob Browne, Jackamoe Buzzell, Stephanie Jones, Stephen Fuller Austin, Brent Black, Landall Goolsby, Gianna Gallegos, Hank Rogerson, Vic Browder, Rafael Herrera, Jack O'Donnell, Greg Lutz, Eva Longoria

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Queen Marie of Romania

4 / 5

Queen Marie of Romania

2019

1 hr 50 min.

Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks.

Genre: Dramat, Historyczny

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Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

4 / 5

Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

2022

0 hr 55 min.

Paris, 1954. The story of the meeting, known thanks to the fortuitous discovery of a forgotten notebook, full of notes and photographs, between a white British aristocrat, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, writer and jazz patron, and a talented black pianist, Thelonious Monk, one of the best bebop jazz musicians of all time; a prodigious union of wills that overcame the most extreme prejudices of the very conservative US society.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

Actors: Thelonious Monk

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Jean de la Fontaine and His Fables

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Jean de la Fontaine and His Fables

2021

0 hr 53 min.

An account of the life of the French poet Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95), author of more than one hundred fables and a model for many other European fabulists of later times.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

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Julio Iglesias: Latin Crooner, Global Star

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Julio Iglesias: Latin Crooner, Global Star

2022

0 hr 53 min.

An account of the life and work of the charismatic and seductive Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, from his beginnings as a soccer player in the Spain of the 1960s, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, to his astonishing worldwide success.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, Muzyczny, film TV

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The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox

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The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox

2022

0 hr 55 min.

France in the 1960s, Jean Dejoux, a self-taught inventor, came to the ORTF's Research Centre with a crazy idea: to build a machine to make cartoons. From the Shadocks to Asterix, from Chuck Jones to Norman McLaren, from Paris to Hollywood stopping off in Italy, here are the little-known and exciting adventures of a visionary and his peculiar machine.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

Actors: Jacques Chaussepied

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Throne of Blood

dir. Akira Kurosawa

4 / 5

Throne of Blood

1957

1 hr 48 min.

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

Genre: Dramat, Historyczny

Actors: Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Kubo, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Takamaru Sasaki, Gen Shimizu, Kokuten Kôdô, Kichijirô Ueda, Eiko Miyoshi, Chieko Naniwa, Yû Fujiki, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yutaka Sada, Yoshio Inaba, Takeshi Katô, Hitoshi Takagi, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Nakajirô Tomita, Sachio Sakai, Shin Ôtomo, Seijirô Onda, Senkichi Ômura, Akira Tani, Ikio Sawamura, Takeo Oikawa, Seijirô Onda, Shinpei Takagi, Masao Masuda, Shirō Tsuchiya, Takeo Matsushita, Jun Ôtomo, Michiya Higuchi, Shôbun Inoue, Gorô Sakurai, Kamayuki Tsubono, Fuminori Ôhashi

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Italo Disco: The Sparkling Sound of the 80s

dir. Alessandro Melazzini

4 / 5

Italo Disco: The Sparkling Sound of the 80s

2021

1 hr 2 min.

The history of italo disco, a musical genre that conquered the world during the incredible eighties, the most cybernetic decade; a style that was not just another kind of dance-pop music, but also the origin of an aesthetic, a true social phenomenon and the creative center of a very profitable industry.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, Muzyczny

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The Nazis, Photography and the Rabbi

4 / 5

The Nazis, Photography and the Rabbi

2023

0 hr 44 min.

The extraordinary story of German businessman Ernst Leitz II (1871-1956), second only to his father in ownership of the optics company that developed the famous and highly successful Leica camera, and his heroic struggle against Nazism.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

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The Who: One Band's Explosive Story

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The Who: One Band's Explosive Story

2022

0 hr 53 min.

The story of Roger Daltrey (vocals), Pete Townshend (guitar), John Entwistle (bass) and Keith Moon (drums): The Who, one of the most original, creative and relevant British bands of the sixties and of the entire history of pop music.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, Muzyczny, film TV

Actors: Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Ken Russell

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Klingert's Diving Suit

4 / 5

Klingert's Diving Suit

2021

0 hr 20 min.

Six-year-old Bi has been afraid of water since the flood took her younger brother. Her father, Karl Klingert, dedicated himself to working on the world's first diving suit. Bi thinks the suit is the monster that took over her father. With the help of Peter, a young bully from the river, she tries to destroy it before the whole family leaves Wroclaw forever.

Genre: Animacja, Historyczny, Dramat, Przygodowy, Fantasy

Actors: Marcin Dorociński

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Book Hunters

4 / 5

Book Hunters

2017

0 hr 52 min.

When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematically burn entire libraries, book hunters, secret heroes of history, travel the world saving and copying texts, threatened by the madness of censors, with the noble purpose of preventing the ultimate loss of human knowledge.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

Actors: Robert Levin

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20 Days in Mariupol

dir. Mstyslav Chernov

4 / 5

20 Days in Mariupol

2023

1 hr 37 min.

As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Wojenny, Historyczny

Actors: Mstyslav Chernov, Владимир Зеленский, Vladimir Putin

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The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland

4 / 5

The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland

2021

0 hr 54 min.

Many have challenged the studios. But none of them managed to win the battle. Not even Bette Davis, who was the Queen of Hollywood. And then, Olivia de Havilland came. After a first battle against Jack Warner to let her play the role of Melanie in Gone with the Wind, the actress will attack one of the biggest Hollywood machines: the Warner Studio. This episode will contribute greatly to the legend of the actress who started one of the most feminist process conducted so far in the film industry. Olivia de Havilland was the Hollywood Insoumise (insubordinate).

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Victoria Hogan

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The Pacific

3.9 / 5

The Pacific

2010

1 hr 0 min.

Genre: Historyczny, Dramat, Przygodowy, Wojenny

Actors: James Badge Dale, Jon Seda, Joseph Mazzello, Ashton Holmes, Jacob Pitts, Rami Malek, William Sadler, Jon Bernthal, Anna Torv, Matt Craven, Noel Fisher, Nate Corddry, Brendan Fletcher, Isabel Lucas, Claire van der Boom, Caroline Dhavernas, Annie Parisse, Keith Nobbs, Tom Hanks

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Amar es para siempre

2.645 / 5

Amar es para siempre

2013

Genre: Dramat, Historyczny, Familijny

Actors: Manuel Baqueiro, José Antonio Sayagués

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